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looks a bit like the Eastern Hog nosed...but it's not quite as brilliant in color.

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown

"...in our attempts to turn it over I noticed its black and orange checker patterned belly. I later learned this to be characteristic of the dusky hog-nosed snake (Heterodon nasicus gloydi), only recently discovered in the sand prairies of southeast Missouri and regarded as critically imperiled in the state due to the near complete destruction of such habitats. Disjunct from the main population further west, its continued survival in Missouri depends upon the survival of these small sand prairie remnants in the Southeast Lowlands."

I managed half a dozen pics before he scooted off. No shovel for the little fella.........I think I'll notify the local MDC office in Springfield.

Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.